568 19.
" they were true; and at "other times the oral or
" written statements tendered
" in evidences may prove to be s "the natural or
inseparable "concomitants of the principal " fact in controversy.... Not " only does this doctrine apply. whenever the fact that a certain " communication was made, and not its truth or falshood " is the point in controverey, " but it extends also to those " cases where the truth of the "fact in dispute will be inferred from the existence of another fact which is under
investigation. Upon there
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"grounds it is considered " that evidence of general ""reputation, reputed ownership. public rumour, general- "character, general notoriety, " and the like, the composed " of the speech of third persons "not under bath, is original "evidence and not hearsay : " the immediate subject
the concurrence of "being the concur "many voices, which races "a presumption that the fact in which they
concur
is true. Thus, it has been "frequently decided that moept